The picture that proves why iconic photograph of workers eating their lunch on Rockefeller beam was all a publicity stunt. MailOnline

By Sara Malm.

Staged: The iconic photograph of workers enjoying their break whilst perched on a beam 69 floors up was, in fact, just a publicity stunt

...The 80-year-old photograph is also the subject of a new film titled Men At Lunch, which was shown at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month and puts forward evidence that the some of workers hail from the small Irish town of Shanaglish. When it began, the construction of the 14 Rockefeller Center towers was the largest private building project undertaken in modern times. The building began in May 1930 and took nine years to complete.‘Lunch atop a Skyscraper’ was taken during the final few months of construction... Read here...